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Harvard Co-Captain Kathy Toner cited the whole team effort over the individual achievements. "We were able to win by so much because we won a lot of points from fifth place finishes," she said. "People tend to overlook the lower places but we really count on them...
...Overlook a great deal...
...skeptics overlook Harvard's first-place ECAC reign. They forget that Harvard is ranked fifth in the nation. Instead, these skeptics argue about the team's youth. What about the fact that a freshman goalie has played in every minute of the season due to senior John Devin's injury? Or that freshmen compose one half of Harvard's first two lines? How will these first-year starters respond to a St. Lawrence or a Colgate...
...agreed that we did not have a drinking problem. Everything in our increasingly narrow world, though, was a problem that required drinking: the wife, the kids, the boss, the government. In dingy watering holes from which everyone with a healthy life to lead had gone home, we conspired to overlook the obvious, that our bodily cells were addicted, and our minds were along for the ride...
...banal, occasionally shows signs of getting out of hand. "People are just beginning to talk about ' '50s classics' now, which is a term that embraces some really appalling ticky-tack," says the British-born architectural historian Reyner Banham, who lives in California. "There is a tendency to overlook the aesthetic quality of a building and just keep it because it is old," says Robert Winter, a cultural historian at Occidental College in Los Angeles. "Too often the reason for declaring something ((a historic landmark)) is sentimental." Sentiment is inadmissible? Isn't the new feeling for preservation and for cities inherently...